What is listening?
Which activity involves the most amount of listening? Students spend 20 percent
of all school related hours just listening. If television watching and one-half
of conversations are included, students spend approximately 50 percent of their
waking hours just listening. For those hours spent in the classroom, the amount
of listening time can be almost 100 percent. Look at your own activities, especially
those related to college. Are most of your activities focused around listening,
especially in the classroom?
If you ask a group of students to give a one word description of listening,
some would say hearing; however, hearing is physical. Listening is following
and understanding the sound---it is hearing with a purpose. Good listening
is built on three basic skills: attitude, attention, and adjustment. These
skills are known collectively as triple-A listening.
Listening is the absorption of the meanings of words and sentences by the
brain. Listening leads to the understanding of facts and ideas. But listening
takes attention, or sticking to the task at hand in spite of distractions.
It requires concentration, which is the focusing of your thoughts upon one
particular problem. A person who incorporates listening with concentration
is actively listening.
Active listening is a method of responding to another that encourages
communication.
Listening is a very important skill, especially for tutors. Many tutors tend
to talk too much during a tutorial session. This defeats the purpose of tutoring,
which is to allow students to learn by discussion. Rather than turning the
session into a mini-lecture, tutors must actively listen and encourage their
students to become active learners. Giving a student your full attention is
sometimes difficult because you start to run out of time, or you find yourself
thinking about your next question; however, the time you spend actively listening
to your student will result in a quality tutoring session.
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